Contraceptive methods are like putting a premium on vice. It makes men and women reckless... As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and [contraception] , no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her.

The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint.

Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.